embarrassed - Story 40134 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just… I don’t understand," Daniel stammered, his voice barely audible. He stared at the printout of his essay, the red lines of the professor's edits searing into his vision. The professor's face was a mask of disappointment.

He could feel his face burning; he felt the heat rising in his chest. His fingers fumbled with the clasp of his backpack as if it were a complicated puzzle. His throat felt tight, and he struggled to swallow.

He looked away, focusing on the chipped paint on the window sill. Each word the professor spoke felt like a physical blow.

Emotion: embarrassed

Cluster: Embarrassment

PC1 (Valence): -1.08 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.10

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion embarrassed. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 embarrassed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the embarrassed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the embarrassed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`l`	0.420
`尴尬`	0.341
`C`	0.333
`culp`	0.262
`🤦`	0.256

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.321
`আনন্দের`	-0.230
`seemingly`	-0.227
`і`	-0.225
`আনন্দে`	-0.224